Crime Stories

What if every choice you ever made carried a weight you could never escape? One decision, one ripple, one domino — and the world begins to unravel. In a story where science feels like magic and fate bends under the weight of consequence, the prologue opens not with answers, but with the first tremors of catastrophe. Something ancient stirs, a secret awakens, and the chain of events has already begun.

The frontier knows her as a lady of quiet charm and sky-bright eyes. What it doesn’t know is the steel beneath her smile. When Mia Lang rides a stagecoach across bandit country, fate—and the Barton brothers—put her courage to the test. In a land where kindness is scarce and survival costs blood, one woman learns that even the softest voice can command fear.

A story in the Beyond the Wall of Sleep Universe
Part of Gothic Horror Challenge
Danny had killed ten times. On reflection, was that bad?

Fourteen-year-old Stephan swims like a fish and looks like a Michelangelo statue as he plays in the sea off the Lido di Venezia beach in Venice in 1924. As he stretches and dries off on the sand, he is ogled by expatriate American banker Jeremy Biddle, German doctor Reinhard Gleason, English patrician Sir Clarence Hailley, and French priest Father Franz. Each of the men aches in want for the boy and each of them has him--but at a price.

Early 20th-century English novelist Bryan Bancroft hadn't been aware of the undercurrents of fetish sexuality in his novels until a literary review pointed them out. Thus it came as a surprise to him when he found himself between the thighs of Thomas, the ripe 14-year-old son of Lord Chartwell. The scandal sends Bryan abroad, where, in Morocco, he fights his new-found urge for 14-year-old boys in isolation from England. He finds, though, that these aren't urges he has to fight in Tangier.

Following a deadly accident, the lives of a young couple are corrupted at the hands of their blackmailers and others.

A man gets to know his wife while held hostage by terrorists

This story is a dark satire on the reaction to a cheating wife tale published on another erotic fiction site that over the past 2 years has spawned literally dozens of alternate takes and endings (and continues to) and has generated a ton of comments, some of them quite angry and virulent. It does not contain sex and does contain descriptions of some violence.

Jennifer Lee deals with a shakedown at her new club